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Stay up-to-date with the latest news from MBZUAI and the wider industry, featuring insights into ongoing University research, innovations, and developments shaping the future of artificial intelligence. The Node gathers expert commentary, press announcements, and initiatives from the University and its partners, keeping you informed on the most relevant trends and breakthroughs.

On Optimizing Mobile Memory, Storage, and Beyond

Thursday, 1 June, 2023

On Optimizing Mobile Memory, Storage, and Beyond

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Current mobile operating systems, such as Android, inherit the Linux kernel. As a result, system software designs that were targeted for servers are now applied in mobile devices. In this […]

Multimodal machine intelligence and its human-centered possibilities

Tuesday, 23 May, 2023

Multimodal machine intelligence and its human-centered possibilities

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Converging developments across the machine intelligence ecosystem––from multimodal sensing and signal processing to computing––are enabling new human-centered possibilities both in advancing science and in the creation of technologies for societal […]

Performance Prediction via Bayesian Matrix Factorisation for Multilingual Natural Language Processing Tasks

Monday, 22 May, 2023

Performance Prediction via Bayesian Matrix Factorisation for Multilingual Natural Language Processing Tasks

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Performance prediction for Natural Language Processing (NLP) seeks to reduce the experimental burden resulting from the myriad of different evaluation scenarios, e.g., the combination of languages used in multilingual transfer. […]

Multimodal pretraining for objectionable content detection in videos

Wednesday, 17 May, 2023

Multimodal pretraining for objectionable content detection in videos

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This talk will cover preliminary work in the space of multimodal representation learning for the task of detecting comic mischief. In this work, we investigate two multimodal pretraining mechanisms to […]

Making microgrids work for people and planet

Tuesday, 16 May, 2023

Making microgrids work for people and planet

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Using a machine learning technique commonly deployed in healthcare settings called federated learning, researchers are using the complexities of energy production and use in microgrids to model novel ways to find the optimal balance between individual needs and grid-level needs, and do it with a keen eye on sustainability.

MBZUAI and OurCrowd Arabia sign MoU to drive funding for AI startups and research

Wednesday, 10 May, 2023

MBZUAI and OurCrowd Arabia sign MoU to drive funding for AI startups and research

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Abu Dhabi’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and OurCrowd Arabia, the Abu Dhabi based subsidiary of Israel’s OurCrowd, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly create and manage several initiatives aiming to accelerate and catalyze the growth of the AI technology ecosystem on the university’s campus in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi.

Intelligent Robots Operating in the Real World: From Agriculture Robots to Autonomous Cars

Wednesday, 10 May, 2023

Intelligent Robots Operating in the Real World: From Agriculture Robots to Autonomous Cars

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Autonomous robots need the ability to perceive and model their environment and make appropriate decisions in complex situations. The complexity results from the high-dimensional perceptions, the large number of possible […]

Green Learning — New Generation Machine Learning and Applications

Monday, 8 May, 2023

Green Learning — New Generation Machine Learning and Applications

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We argue that Deep Learning is not the only approach to achieve excellent performance. Striving towards Green Learning, we will propose and discuss Operational Neural Networks (ONNs) as more efficient […]

Inaugural hackathon explores AI healthcare solutions

Friday, 5 May, 2023

Inaugural hackathon explores AI healthcare solutions

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Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) hosted the first-ever Human Phenotype Project Hackathon in Abu Dhabi. The event brought together 24 postgraduate students and researchers from diverse backgrounds to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare.

Faculty win EACL 2023 outstanding paper

Thursday, 4 May, 2023

Faculty win EACL 2023 outstanding paper

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MBZUAI faculty members Alham Fikri Aji and Timothy Baldwin have been honored, alongside their co-authors, with an Outstanding Paper Award at the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2023. Aji is an assistant professor of natural language processing, and Baldwin is acting provost and chair of the Department of Natural Language Processing at MBZUAI.

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